1960s Timeline

Mar. 31, 1964 - Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Minister of Industry in Cuba, welcomed today a declaration last week by U.S. Senator J.W....

Mar. 2, 1964 - The Communist party announced today a renewed campaign designed to eradicate religion from Soviet life. The outline of the...

Nov. 25, 1963 - Ernesto “Che” Guevara says that with the new Administration in Washington, Cuba would have to be “alert as always and...

Nov. 16, 1963 - Soviet authorities announced today the release and expulsion of Frederick C. Barghoorn, a Yale University professor, and...

Sept. 29, 1963 - Governor Nelson Rockefeller (R-N.Y.) had to tell the East German Communists today how much money he had in his wallet. A...

Sept. 5, 1963 - Pete Seeger (pictured with Bob Dylan in Mississippi in July), the folk singer, said today he had refused to sign a...

Aug. 17, 1963 - Thousands of West Berliners filed silently past a wooden cross on the western side of the Communist wall today. In small...

Aug. 2, 1963 - An American who refused repatriation after his release as a prisoner of war in Korea 10 years ago said today he was...

July 26, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King said today a 39-year-old Negro linked by Congressional committees to the Communist movement had...

July 24, 1963 - Richard M. Nixon made a surprise two-hour trip into East Berlin tonight. It was the second trip of the day into the...

July 16, 1963 - Premier Fidel Castro declared himself a supporter of peaceful coexistence at a French Embassy reception last night. This...

June 28, 1963 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev rode through East Berlin today in a “friendship visit” that drew a considerably milder...

June 4, 1963 - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (pictured last month) has warned that the Communist Party, “this nation’s most formidable...

Apr. 29, 1963 - Fidel Castro, sporing his khaki forage cap, combat jacket, and crumpled fatigues, received a two-minute ovation from the...

Apr. 29, 1963 - East German officials expressed concern today over the increasing number of attempts to escape to the West after four...

Apr. 28, 1963 - Premier Fidel Castro declared today that his regime owed its life to the Soviet Union. Standing beside Premier Khrushchev...

Mar. 11, 1963 - Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, declaring the U.S. has not written off Cuba, indicated today this country might...

Dec. 25, 1962 - Manuel Artime (pictured in May 1961), one of the leaders of the abortive 1961 Cuban invasion, today called on all the...

Dec. 24, 1962 - The last of the 1,113 Bay of Pigs invasion prisoners came back tonight in time to spend Christmas with their relatives....

Dec. 17, 1962 - The Communist Party of the United States was found guilty today of refusing to register as an agent of the Soviet Union...